EXCERCISE 2

PRESENTATION






PROPOSITION:

To design a monumental Community Centre which evokes its historic site; once comprising of sand dunes fed by a freshwater creek that discharged at Coogee Beach. This natural pathway is to be enhanced in the design proposition through the exploration of organic architecture as gateway to the natural landscape and the public interaction with the surrounds.

EXPLORATIONS:

Sand Dunes as Natural movement

Movement of the ocean and wind, continually taking sand away from the beach and depositing it elsewhere.

Sand Dune Arch as gateway.

Bridge over a creek, emulating the curved sense of journey.

Sand Dunes as Natural threshold

Formed at the interface between the sea and the land, they act as a buffer between the ocean, the beach and the inland areas.

Architecture as movement

Tensile roof structures – Southern Cross Station by Grimshaw Jackson JV.

Sage Music & Art Gallery – Architecture which has a continuous wall and roof, rising from the ground. This not only allows for a clear external transition between the natural and built, but forms unique curved planes internally.

Architecture as Gateway

Maritime Youth House – Copenhagen. The deck rises becoming an exciting play areas for kids.

Sydney Opera House Western Colonnade – Reminder that the building is a living place as well as an icon.

Centennial Park Amenities by Lahz Nimmo. These altered the idea of insertion, reciprocity and threshold. The buildings are treated as edge buildings which frame the landscape.

Materiality
Centennial Park Amenities – Slatted screen which is viewed differently from the differing approaches to the amenities. From an edge, the built appears monumental, whereas from a distance it appears thin and screen-like.

St Andrew’s Beach House Sean Godsell Architects – Corten steel and timber. Texture and materiality evokes the coastal site.

Fennell Residence - Robert Harvey Oshatz Architect, An organic floating house that uses curved Gluelam beams.